Sixteen female players in total will be competing in the tournament.
It will be played as a round-robin, with 15 rounds in total, each of which be micro-match from two games.
Natalia Sadowska (Poland) won the right to become a candidate in the match for the title Women's World Draughts Champions with Zoja Golubeva (Latvia).
The sixteen participants are nominated according to a schema and rules accepted by the FMJD General Assembly: The games will be played in the official FMJD time rate of the Fischer system with 1 hour and 20 minutes for the game plus 1 minute per move.
[1] Conforming to the FMJD regulations players are not allowed to agree on a draw before they both made 40 moves.